This essay contains a dialogue that took place in July of 1830
in which Chief Pokagon of the Potawatomi requested from Father Richard
a resident missionary for his people.

Goss, Dwight. "The Indians of the Grand River Valley." Vol. 30, (1906): 172-190.

Discusses the settlement of Michigan by the People of the
Three Fires, i.e. the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi. Also provides
information relating to traders (including Langlade), missions,
sketches of various Indian villages and chiefs, Indian names of towns
and rivers, 1836 and 1855 treaties, annuities, social customs, houses,
and commentary on the Indians' general character.

A biography of an Austrian bishop (1797-1868) who ministered
to the Odawa of Harbor Springs and Grand Rapids (1830- ). Baraga
printed an Odawa prayer book in 1832 and he moved Lake superior at la
Pointe in 1834 then to L'Anse in 1845.

This essay is a short history of protestant missions to the
Indians; Indian schools on Mackinac; history of the Mackinac mission.

Wilson, Etta Smith. "Life and work to the Late rev. George N. Smith, a Pioneer Missionary." Vol. 30, (1906): 190-212.

Pages 198-207 describe the Odawa and Ojibwe colony at Allegan,
1838-1839. Also includes is a discussion of the colony's move to
Holland in 1839 and its being called Old Wing Mission; troubles with
the Dutch at Holland after 1847; and the move to Leelenaw in 1848.

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